ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,038, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus of handling sidelink communication in cell supporting network energy savings" was invented by Anil Agiwal (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunjeong Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a communication system includes: receiving a discontinuous transmission (DTX) configuration associated with a DTX duration; identifying that the UE is configured with si...